Saturday Night Concert
Venue:
Dr John Fairbairn - leader of the orchestra
Muir Mathieson - guest conductor
John Tainsh - singer
1. Overture: "The Force of Destiny" ... Verdi
2. Aria: "Flower Song" ("Carmen") ... Bizet
3. Entr'acte: Meditation ("Thais") ... Massenet
4. Overture and Venusberg music ("Tannhauser") ... Wagner
5. "The ride of the Valkyries" ... Wagner
INTERVAL
6. March: "Prince Igor" ... Borodin
7. Aria: "Ombra mai fu" ... Handel
8. Introduction and waltz: "Eugene Onegin" ... Tchaikowsky
9. Arias: (a) "When other lips" ("Bohemian girl") ... Balfe
(b) "Yes, let me like a soldier fall" (Maritana") ... Wallace
10. Ballet music: "Dance of the hours" ("Gioconda") ... Ponchielli
Composer(s):
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
- Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875
- Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
- Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, 1840-1893
- Balfe, Michael William 1808-1870
- Wallace, William Vincent, 1812-1865
- Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886
Performance Type:
There are no programme notes.
On p.4: Programme for the 12th and 13th Saturday night concerts on 29 December 1945 and 5 January 1946; plus the programme for a Reid orchestral special concert on 2 January 1946.